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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

"You'll never guess this one reason why tech manufacturers love AI!"

Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I decided to have AI help me redesign my home network for a work malware VLAN ... it did not go well. $250 and hours of troubleshooting later, ChatGPT finally admits its error

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I knew LANDMVRKS had songs in French but didn't realize until tonight they were actually from France

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

A break from PTO chilling to catch an awesome show with Poppy, LANDMVRKS, and Thousand Below. The first show of their US tour and it was 🔥 🔥

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Lazy web while camping: trying to find a first car for teen but Facebook bans viewing listings unless you're 18 years old Is there any good solution to sharing details of a listing? Other than taking a dozen screenshots or printing to pdf from laptop?

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

We're still in the middle of a heat wave but also need a pure disconnect period to break in the camper I've been slowly restoring. First win, the A/C actually works! (trips circuit at home)

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Thank you BSidesVancouver for an awesome event. Happy to present on a modern, unique targeted phishing account, and then win the event @corelight-inc.bsky.social CTF. Credit to the CoreLight platform. I've never used it before but picked it up quickly to finish first.

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

When you sign off a meeting and your system just randomly gives a notification

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

As a malware analyst I am uniquely qualified to explain that a file with a Virustotal score of 30/72 is actually legit

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Easier path is tolerance. I've been in 24/7 pain for past 3 yrs due to a car accident. The amount fluctuates but there's a level of "normal pain" where brain just ACKs it and moves on. But it took over a year to get to that point... Patience is impossible, but necessary It's a long road, I'm sorry

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Slack's shame mode while I'm OOO on PTO is on point

Me: Making a post to work Slack at 6:40AM while on PTO

Slackbot: Hey! We love seeing you, but aren't you supposed to be offline?

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Excited that Sublime Security will be hosting a webinar with @johnhammond.bsky.social on newer email trends. Attackers are shifting to low volume abuse of legitimate services like opportunistic abuse of legitimate services and calendar phishing. sublime.security/events/trend...

sublime.security

Trends to watch in 2026: Calendar phishing and opportunistic service abuse · Events · Sublime Security

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

The BSidesCharm CFP is accepting 50-min and 20-min talks. So far, less than 20% of submissions are 20-mins. I don't know who needs to hear this, but shorter talks have a higher likelihood of being accepted ...

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Of all the year-end wrap-ups, our expensing system has the best

Ramp EOY review. Award for expensing a 1€ bathroom visit in Gare du Nord Paris

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

A gift to myself is fixing my voice. After years of public speaking it took just one car accident w/ yrs of recovery to completely change my speech Now, w/ presentations being scheduled, I realize that I need to fix it. A lot of muscles to retrain, and looking for good resources

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

You're absolutely right! It is overlooking your instructions and I hope will no longer do it.

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

This is the fun of my Friday evenings...

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Technically just hides it. Still shown on page but faded out to barely readable.

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Partial LinkedIn access on PC, but banned from phone still. Using LinkOff extension, one of the best things ever. Hides all junk so that LinkedIn is actually usable. Partially hides useless posts so I can see real activity.

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

I use a chrome extension to remove shittified posts from LinkedIn, such as people liking things. LinkedIn has now continually banned me from using it on any platform.

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

When you use your personal email for a work project and end up screwing yourself for 24 hours... New distraction task, find out how my scripts hit a 2000/day limit so quickly

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Today was my 8th time under anesthesia within the last year. Joked with anesthesiologist about having a frequent sleeper card to punch while I'm out. Get 10 and get a free breakfast at hospital café 😂 (because each requires fasting through breakfast)

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

The work day has just barely started and I already know that I'm going to be in a bad mood

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I had some time to work on the RE Rust Tickler challenges from @HuntressLabs recent CTF. Specifically, I wanted to focus on @vector35 Binary Ninja's TTD implementation Over weekend I made some quick write-ups on how I approached these easier challenges. github.com/Rurik/CTF/tr...

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CTF/Huntress_2025 at master · Rurik/CTF

Various CTF code. Contribute to Rurik/CTF development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

AI is going to take over the world!

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I cut out TV and games for the last five weeks to focus. Making up for lost time starting tonight

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I refuse to sink to its level When the robot revolution occurs, I will die knowing that I took the high road

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

AI - Master of the backhanded compliment

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

LinkedIn: AI is going to take over the world! Be prepared Twitter: AI is kinda helping. It can do some cool things Me: If Claude was a person I would be in jail for aggravated assault

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I just need to monitor these two bytes at 0x...c8. 10PM brain: Sure. Query "0x...c8 to 0x...c10" Computer go brrrrr for an hour 🫠

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

The Binary Ninja 5.2 dev release is showing some amazing work with their new Time Travel Debugging (TTD) interface. This makes a huge impact on analysis! (and fits well on my UW monitor)

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Debugging is a long journey Plan random rest breaks along the way

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

#flareon12 reduced to four weeks, meanwhile the first week I'm preparing a talk and work traveling ... I should tack on days and sequester myself in a hotel room with room service the entire time

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Rewriting Noriben to be class-based Python, now that I'm learning it properly. And playing with process tree output ... As I do all my best work from hotel rooms.

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

When somewhere along the line a dash in your text was converted to an emdash and now you're afraid everyone will think AI wrote it. Back in my day we accepted grammar fixes without question ...

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

10 years ago: "This code is too simple. No helper functions, no documentation. You must have copied it from StackOverflow." Today: "This code is too complex. Too many helper functions and solid documentation. You must have used AI."

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

For the "did we run into each other at Vegas?" questions, this is my standard dress code for all events 😂 Too bad there's not more room for stickers, being strategic about which to use. You'll also find me with the cane at future events so I'm easy to spot.

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Not online, yet. Maybe soon. I may try to give the sticker one again in a longer format that it really needs

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

And had an awesome time being back at @bsideslv.org and DEF CON, for the inaugural Malware Village! You wouldn't guess which of these two talks was the most stressful to prepare 😂

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Home from Vegas and recovering from sickness. But left with a lot of memories. It's been years since I was properly out and I really missed seeing all my friends.

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

And cue the random taxi drivers with "DEF CON? So, my phone and all my accounts are hacked. How can I tell if it's a foreign government?" questions

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Reposted by Brian Baskin

The Officially Unofficial DEF CON Sticker Swap @dcstickerswap.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

The Officially Unofficial Sticker Swap will be held Saturday, August 9th from 2pm to 4pm in the HallwayCon Lounge area on Level 2. Spread the word…

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

My love to the @bsideslv.org team. Being a ginger, and not a day walker, there was a real risk of me dying from the sun. So they gifted me a safety package with umbrella 😂

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Firing up the "aggressively working out of hotel room" playlist

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Huge admiration to custom badges and CTF made for the Sublime Security company retreat. Amazing work!

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Exhaustion: When you spend two hours trying everything to inject a DLL into a process to drop data, in every which way possible, and then realize you're working on the wrong file.

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

You too! It's been years since we sat down. Would be good to catch up.

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